Healthy Climate

From significant threats to public health and agriculture, to increasing stress on our economy and environment, the impacts of climate change are happening now, they’re happening here in Iowa, and they are intensifying.

The need to act on climate and protect our communities, public health and natural resources is urgent, and thanks to rapidly-advancing, increasingly economical solutions, it is achievable.

Carbon pollution is a primary cause of climate change. Fossil fuel-fired power plants are our nation’s largest concentrated source of carbon pollution. Despite its clean energy leadership, Iowa remains one of the most coal-dependent states in the country, importing all of its coal from outside the state at a cost of $590 million a year.